smartphones

Microsoft

Fujitsu Launches First Windows Phone 7.5 Mobile in Japan

August 25, 2011 0 Tassavur

Windows Mango phone has officially made its entry in Japan with Fujitsu Toshiba Mobile Communications launching the Windows Phone IS12T which was announced last month. Fujitsu is the first company to launch Windows Phone 7.5 in Japan which would be…

Nokia

Nokia Announces Three New Symbian Belle Handsets

August 25, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia may have thrown in the towel when it comes to Symbian, but the company doesn’t seem to have any plans to stop producing Symbian based handsets any time soon. While the company is expected to come out with its…

Google

Why The Next Nexus Phone Might Not Be From Motorola & Why It May Be!

August 15, 2011 0 Annkur

With Google buying Motorola, there is a lot of speculation on what would this mean for Android handsets from Motorola, especially the Nexus series from Google getting some Moto love. Google claims to be paying a 63% premium over Motorola’s…

Android

Samsung Renames Galaxy S LCD to Galaxy Plus In India, Creates Confusion

July 23, 2011 0 Prasad Naik

When Samsung launched the I9003 Galaxy SL in India, they chose to rename it to Galaxy S LCD, to emphasize the fact that this phone has a Super LCD unlike the Super AMOLED display on the more expensive I9000 Galaxy S. However,…

Android

Exclusive: HTC Launching ChaCha In India (Updated)

July 19, 2011 0 Annkur

HTC is holding an event in Mumbai tomorrow, and while the invite reads a new product (in association with Tata DoCoMo), we have learnt that HTC would actual unveil the ChaCha tomorrow. HTC already has the Salsa retailing in India,…

Microsoft

First Impression: Windows Phone 7.5 Mango Update (Beta)

July 9, 2011 3 Annkur

With some help, I managed to get a beta build of Windows Phone 7 Mango update running on my LG Optimus 7. Mango is said to be a significant update and the next wave of Windows Phones are expected to…

Android

LG Optimus Black P970 Review

July 7, 2011 0 Prasad Naik

The under-20,000 segment is suddenly starting to heat up. Smartphones that you’d normally get for a much higher price can now be found under this price bracket, which is a good thing as it is still viewed by many as…

HTC

OG Review: HTC Salsa C510e Facebook Phone

June 25, 2011 0 Annkur

Back in February, at the grand stage of Mobile World Congress, HTC announced its two Facebook phones, the Salsa and Chacha. We decided to pick up the HTC Salsa C510e for review and gave the Facebook phone a quick test…

Android

Sony Ericsson Outs Xperia Ray and Xperia Active

June 22, 2011 0 Rahul S

Sony Ericsson seems to be on a roll these days. After a plethora of launches of late, the company is in action yet again and has today launched three new Android powered handsets. The new kids on the block are…

Nokia

Nokia Announces the MeeGo Laden N9

June 21, 2011 3 Rahul S

At the Nokia Connection event underway at Singapore, Nokia has finally taken covers off its newest N-Series handset, the Nokia N9. Unlike most of its predecessors (barring the Maemo laden N900 of course) this one runs MeeGo, an OS that…

Nokia

Nokia Launches Symbian Anna Laden X7 Smartphone in Taiwan

June 15, 2011 4 Rahul S

It’s a busy day for folks over at Nokia it seems. After bringing out the Symbian Anna based E6 business handset to India on preorder, the company has announced the launch of its latest multimedia smartphone, the X7 in Taiwan.…

Android

HTC Sensation Does An iPhone: Has the Death Grip Issue?

June 7, 2011 1 Rahul S

Now, this is really interesting. HTC’s recently launched flagship handset the Sensation seems to be facing an issue that is similar to what the iPhone 4 faced last year just after it was launched. When you hold the Sensation in…

Gaming

Sony Ericsson Xperia Play Reviewed

May 9, 2011 2 Ricky

Portable gaming devices have been a great hit in the market, devices like the Sony PSP, Nintendo Gameboy Advance, the Nintendo DS have all fared very well in the portable gaming device sector. There were also gaming phones like the…

Android

Acer Iconia S300 Smartphone / Tablet – First Impressions (Video)

May 4, 2011 0 Annkur

We spent a good amount of time checking out the Iconia range at the Acer launch today. One of the early birds here was the A300 smartphone / tablet hybrid. Acer likes to count this as a tablet and we…

Android

Nexus S gets Android 2.3.4 OTA, You Can Get It OTW!

April 29, 2011 5 Aaplap

Google and Samsung  finally launched the Nexus S in India a couple days ago. Those of you who jumped on it get an instant treat: The latest and the greatest Android 2.3.4! This seems to be a minor update over…

smartphones

Froyo loaded Acer Liquid Mini quietly arrives for Rs. 11,990 in India

April 23, 2011 0 c0rex

Acer has quietly introduced new Liquid Mini smartphone that runs Android 2.2 Froyo. Like a little brother to the Acer Liquid Metal, the all new Liquid Mini has 3.2-inch capacitive touchscreen display with HVGA 320×480 pixel resolution. It’s never to…

Apps

BlackBerry Protect 1.0 Now Available for Asia-Pacific Users

April 19, 2011 0 Aaplap

BlackBerry Protect, RIM’s free add-on app for backing up your BlackBerry data online, has finally been made available to users in the Asia-Pacific region, which includes all us Indians. BlackBerry Protect offers features very necessary in this day and age…

Featured

Samsung’s New Phones Could Be Faster Than Your Laptop

April 18, 2011 4 Aaplap

The mobile phone manufacturer that never sleeps, Samsung, is busy pushing the limits of mobile CPUs; their new smartphones are likely to sport dual-core 2.0GHz CPUs by the end of the year. These new CPUs will almost certainly power the…

Nokia

Nokia E6 Arrives, Aims To Replace Your Ageing E71, E72

April 12, 2011 0 Rahul S

Along with the X7, Nokia also took covers off its latest E-Series handset, the E6 earlier today. The E6 can be considered an update to the highly popular E7x series of handsets and is a direct upgrade to the Nokia…

Opinion

An Ode To The Samsung Omnia HD

April 4, 2011 4 Rahul S

Back in 2009 while I was at Techtree handling my “mobile beats” space and busy covering the MWC, I came across this phone from Samsung. It belonged to the Omnia family which had until then only boasted of devices running…

Apple

Apple Releases iOS 4.3.1

March 25, 2011 0 Monis

Apple has finally released iOS 4.3.1 for download in iTunes. This update fixes many bugs that were earlier reported including the graphic glitch in iPod Touch 4th generation, Apple TV image flickering when using Apple Digital AV adapter with some…

Android

Motorola Milestone gets Froyo…finally!

March 17, 2011 1 Anupama

After months of waiting, Motorola Milestone users in India can now update their handsets to Android 2.2, also known as Froyo update. The update has been put on Motorola’s website and users can update their handsets by connecting them to…

Featured

Nokia E7: First Hands On, Early Impressions, Pictures

February 18, 2011 1 Team OG

Even though Nokia might have made it clear that Windows Phone Would be their smartphone OS of choice going forward, the fact is that Symbian still happens to be one of the most used smartphone platforms out there. In fact, Nokia will continue to…

Android

iPhone 4 Bags Award For The Best Mobile Phone At MWC

February 18, 2011 0 Rahul S

The just concluded Mobile World Congress was dominated by Android without doubt. A plethora of Android based smartphones were displayed at the expo since day one. The grand finale of the event was the Global Mobile Awards announcement. This function…

Android

LG Announces Android Powered Optimus 3D, Optimus Pad Prior To MWC

February 13, 2011 0 Rahul S

While the MWC is to start officially on 14 Feb, manufacturers like LG and Samsung seem to be too impatient and have already announced their line up for the show there. LG’s line up is pretty interesting thanks to its…

Nokia

Will Nokia’s Microsoft Alliance Pay Off?

February 11, 2011 1 Rahul S

We all knew this was coming. In the wake of rising competition from newer, younger and nimbler adversaries like iOS and Android Nokia has announced a “strategic alliance” with Microsoft that would see the transition of Nokia’s high end devices…

Android

Evernote for Android updated to 2.6

February 10, 2011 0 Anupama

Evernote, one of our favourite note making apps has just released an update for its Android version. The updated app, Evernote 2.6, comes with three major additions, the snippet view, notebook stacks and edit styled notes. The snippet view very…

Android

India gets its first Gingerbread phone, the OliveSmart, for less than Rs 20,000

February 9, 2011 0 Nimish

Even as our resident Android specialist Ricky Droid highlighted rumours that some manufacturers are sidestepping the Android 2.3 update and heading straight to version 2.4, Olive Telecom has released India’s first phone running Android 2.3, or Gingerbread as it is…

Nokia

Nokia’s E7 Goes On Sale

February 7, 2011 0 Rahul S

Nokia’s upcoming flagship business phone, the E7 would be soon arriving on select markets across the globe – Nokia revealed today. The first shipments will start later this week and the device would be available in more markets in the…

Android

The PS phone is official – Sony E shows off Xperia Play in Super Bowl ad!

February 7, 2011 0 Nimish

We have been hearing rumours about its existence for weeks and even expressed our cynicism about it, but we – and the world – got official confirmation of the existence of a PlayStation phone. And it could not have come…

Android

Olive to launch first Indian HSPA+ smartphone – do we smell Gingerbread?

February 4, 2011 2 Nimish

We have received an invite from the folks at Olive Telecom, asking us to “witness the launch of the first Indian HSPA+  smartphone” in Delhi on February 9. First, let us get the jargon out of the way and clarify…

Android

Now anyone can create an Android app – just use AppsGeyser

January 31, 2011 0 Nimish

Creating apps for Android just got a whole lot easier, thanks to an online service called AppsGeyser. You do not need to do any coding whatsoever, just enter some information in an online form, and you can have an Android…

Android

Android 2.3 Has Serious Security Vulnerability: Researcher

January 31, 2011 0 Rahul S

A computer security researcher from the North Carolina State University (NCSU) has revealed that he has come across serious security vulnerability in Android 2.3 – the latest version of Android OS for smartphones. Xuxian Jiang, the researcher figured out that…

Android

Will Nokia Opt For Android?

January 31, 2011 2 Rahul S

It’s been just a few days since Nokia announced its not so inspiring Q4 2010 results and people are already talking about the possibility of the company opting for Android sometime in the near future. The latest reason for this…

Android

Waterproof, scratch-proof, dust-proof Motorola Defy comes to India for Rs 18,500

January 29, 2011 0 Anupama

Whatever their pros and cons, no one can deny that Motorola’s phones generally have excellent build quality. And the latest phone from the Moto stable, the Moto Defy takes that one step forward. It is built to be resistant to…

Android

Skyfire, Facebook for Android updated

January 29, 2011 0 Nimish

The last couple of days have been busy for Android users with two of the most popular applications on the Android market, the Skyfire browser and the official Facebook app for Android getting updates.  While both seem minor rather than…

Samsung

The second Wave cometh – Samsung Wave II released in India for Rs 20,990

January 27, 2011 0 Nimish

We had been seeing it in the market for a few days and now we have official confirmation – Samsung has released the successor of the highly successful Wave handset in the Indian market. The Wave II does not have…

Apps

Now there’s an app for making your trip – MakeMyTrip comes to BlackBerry

January 24, 2011 0 Anupama

Indian online travel agency MakeMyTrip (MMT) has launched its travel booking app on the BlackBerry App World in India. Called MakeMyTrip Mobile, the app will help users search and compare air fares and booking through authorized transaction channels with Visa…

Apple

OneNote arrives in App Store, will MS Office follow?

January 18, 2011 0 Anupama

Microsoft has released a version of its note-making application, OneNote, for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad. The app which is part of the MS Office suite on computers and is being used by over 80 million people in the…

Featured

OG Interview: Ajay Sharma, Country Head, HTC India

January 18, 2011 1 Nimish

After being in the news for coming out with some amazing smartphones over the past few years, HTC had a relatively quiet holiday season in India, with no major releases. However, the company seems to be back in the swing…